Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study
1st Edition
By Eden Sum-hung Li, Percy Luen-tim Lui, Andy Ka-chun Fung
June 30, 2021
Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study is the first book which takes a comprehensive systemic functional perspective on political discourse to provide a complete, integrated, exhaustive, systemic and functional description and analysis. Based on the political ...
Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages: Insights from the Margins
1st Edition
By Emily Manetta
March 31, 2021
This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly. After first defining what ...
Time Series Analysis of Discourse: Method and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Dennis Tay
December 18, 2020
This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstrate its potential to complement qualitative approaches in discourse analysis research. The book begins by discussing how time has previously been ...
Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Akila Sellami-Baklouti, Lise Fontaine
August 14, 2020
This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language. ...
The Language of Pop Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Valentin Werner
August 14, 2020
This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks. The book features ...
Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language
1st Edition
By Michele Prandi
July 12, 2019
This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can ...
A Forensic Linguistic Approach to Legal Disclosures: ERISA Cash Balance Conversion Cases and the Contextual Dynamics of Deception
1st Edition
By James Stratman
August 23, 2018
This book is a scholarly work of forensic linguistics that demonstrates how the principles of Gricean pragmatics and their recent elaboration in Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) can be of use to courts faced with deciding cases of allegedly fraudulent disclosure documents. The usual goal of ...
Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction
1st Edition
By Tamar Sovran
February 05, 2018
This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate words reveal the infrastructure of the ...
Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages
1st Edition
By Peter Schrijver
November 04, 2016
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the ...
Metonymy and Language: A New Theory of Linguistic Processing
1st Edition
By Charles Denroche
November 03, 2016
Metonymy and Language presents a new theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps. Through the use of original data sets and rigorous primary research, Denroche characterizes metonymy as key to ...
Conceptualizing Metaphors: On Charles Peirce’s Marginalia
1st Edition
By Ivan Mladenov
December 01, 2014
The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be ...
The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes
1st Edition
By Graeme Ritchie
February 25, 2014
This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyze ...